Steve Fossett, the millionaire businessman and adventurer perhaps best known for circumnavigating the world nonstop in a hot air balloon, was preparing to break the absolute land speed record -- 763 miles per hour -- when he died. He was declared...

November 4, 2008, Tuesday

Officials have found two large human bones near the crash site of the adventurer Steve Fossett's plane in the Sierra Nevada. Sheriff John Anderson of Madera County said searchers found the bones on Wednesday about a half-mile east of the crash site....